Facebook's Whistleblower Speaks Out

A.M. Edition for Oct. 4. Former Facebook employee Frances Haugen says that her goal is to help prompt change at the social-media giant, not to stir anger toward it. WSJ's Betsy McKay discusses the push for a vaccine against all coronaviruses. The U.S. looks to resume trade talks with China. And the WSJ's Caitlin Ostroff on the Fed's planned review of a possible digital dollar. Peter Granitz hosts. Correction: The documents that Frances Haugen gathered showed Facebook knew that its algorithms foster discord. A previous version of this podcast mischaracterized Facebook's internal research as having found that the platform contributed to violence including the Capitol riot on January 6th. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices